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On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 philter52 at mac.com wrote:

> To whomsoever it may concern,
> What exalted company! The cognoscenti nay the illuminati,esotericists  
> all.I am 52 and have read Pynchon since I was in my 20s,reading 'V'  
> first and then the UK Penguin edition of the "Crying of Lot  
> 49"......... . .right through  to.............."Against the Day'.Some  
> Pynchon lines/words that have entered the "echo chambers of the[my]  
> self"(George Steiner): "paranoid nexus","Icy Eye",'laughter no  
> joke"(on the affects of cannabis inhaled by the 'Paranoids'),"the  
> whole sick crew",the 'Inconvenience'...........
> 				Universal=Entropy.
> 				Particular=Paranoia
> 				Universal=Wonder(metaphysics-ontology)
> 				Particular=Mystery/Secrecy.......
> 				Universal=Cosmic
> 				Particular=Jokes,songs,cartoons.
> 				 
> Hermeneutics..........................................................?? 
> ?Historicism,Scientism,Modernism,Post-Modernism...........
> 			As for Post-Modernism, a friend of mine said the following:"I know  
> it when I see it,but cannot tell you what it is".
> 					The Pynchon world:paradox,our world,don't take it too  
> seriously,but act as if your life depended on it.Live in spite of,  
> you never know what lies beyond/nearby-Oz or an infinite number of  
> worlds(logically possible along with solipsism)and dare I say it?God  
> and post-irony.Don't worry it's all contextual-Pynchon,like Vonnegut  
> abhors the semi-colon but not the vacuum.
> 									Pynchon and DeLillo,two American Masters,
> 												I salute you and your admirers,keep in touch,
> 												Regards-Phileastine
>